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Kohli has been in superlative form and has been instrumental in the teams success under his captaincy. However, he said it was a total team effort. "You cannot alone do it in the middle, and there have been guys who have been part of partnerships in the last two and half years. Once you get the momentum in partnerships then you, as a batsman, can press yourself. So it also depends on your teammates as well, how they help you in tough moments when you are not sort of in-form or want to get back into touch. "It?s been a collective effort. I won?t say I have done things by myself. Yes I have worked hard on my game but it?s the team that has helped me play in a way I can, play with the same mindset so it has been wonderful since then.? He refused to discuss about where the England batsmen went wrong in the series. "I?m not going to sit here and comment about someone else?s faults. We focus on our strengths, we accept defeat pretty gracefully. We?ve never complained, we always find faults in our game and try to improve that. That?s exactly what we keep doing in every game that we play. "I?m no one or in no position to question someone else?s technique or someone else?s faults. They should understand it themselves and work on it. As international cricketers, it is their responsibility. So I?m not going to sit here and play sarcastic mind games. I want to focus on good cricket and that?s exactly what we?ve done." He also did not see the series victory as revenge for past defeats. "Not at all, that?s all for TRPs. I feel all these little visuals that you see on Star and TV before the series, a lot of the campaigns are pretty exciting for people to watch actually. They like those sort of things, people talking about the series and saying this one will thrash this one. As cricketers, honestly, it?s far from what we think about." His brilliant 235, along with the centuries from Murali Vijay and Jayant Yadav, set up India?s great reply, but Kohli rated his Adelaide century as the best among all his 15 centuries, including three double hundreds this year. "I am still very personally very attached to the one in Adelaide (in 2014-15) in the second innings because that was the beginning of this transition. But this probably can be the second best, in my heart I still rate the one in Adelaide in the second innings higher than the ones I have scored elsewhere." Giving the example of Jayant Yadav, Kohli said such talent should be identified and pitchforked into international cricket rather than make them wait and lose them. "Jayant?s hundred was outstanding. At one stage even though I was on 140 he was outscoring me. So it shows the belief he has in his game. If you get guys like that, you identify them, you get them into international circuit immediately. Also you need to identify who are the guys that have the game to succeed at international level and not necessarily wait for them to have three good seasons of first-class cricket and then totally be burnt out by that time when they come to international cricket. "If you see Jayant?s record in the first-class cricket, his runs and wickets won?t sort of shock you or mesmerise you but here he is and he knows the game perfectly well." The victory here was highly satisfying for Kohli. "I would say it was really satisfying. It was a test of patience. Knowing we are 2-0 up, we can?t taking anything for granted going into the last Test. You don?t want to leave one Test with the opposition still having a chance to level the series. So from that sense, it was very important to wrap it up here." PTI SSR BS BS

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